Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 236 292
Rank change year-on-year -58 +56 -72
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 520 533 891
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.30% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.40% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 212 300 509
10th Percentile £42,599 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,006 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £92,813 £85,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,180 £100,250 £112,650
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.96% +10.73% -7.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,153 38,054 77,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.62% 93.06% 86.41%
Number of salaries quoted 37,653 22,322 57,935
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,097
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -48 473 £68,510 -2.13% 221
London +51 281 £85,000 +13.33% 105
Work from Home +55 239 £75,000 +15.38% 95
UK excluding London -142 186 £63,076 -2.96% 137
North of England -51 58 £74,500 -6.88% 31
South East -122 38 £52,500 -19.23% 47
Midlands -46 36 £63,076 +0.92% 19
North West -17 35 £83,750 +4.62% 16
West Midlands -23 26 £58,750 -6.00% 11
East of England -6 25 £61,300 -5.69% 21
Yorkshire -42 20 £63,076 +94.08% 13
South West -58 17 £62,500 -3.29% 12
Northern Ireland - 11 £75,000 - 1
East Midlands -53 10 £80,000 +18.52% 8
Scotland -36 4 £55,000 +22.22% 6
North East -27 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2
Wales - 3 £69,501 - 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 16 (3.08%) Confluence
3 11 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.38%) CICS
5 2 (0.38%) CMS
5 2 (0.38%) MTS
6 1 (0.19%) Drupal
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (6.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 21 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.58%) Trello
7 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (3.65%) Workfront
2 8 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.58%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Magento
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.08%) AWS
2 62 (11.92%) SaaS
3 55 (10.58%) Azure
4 33 (6.35%) iPaaS
5 21 (4.04%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.65%) Pulumi
7 17 (3.27%) GitHub
8 15 (2.88%) GCP
9 14 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.73%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.54%) H2O.ai
12 8 (1.54%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.54%) PaaS
13 5 (0.96%) Asana
13 5 (0.96%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.77%) Collibra
14 4 (0.77%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.77%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.15%) Broadband
2 17 (3.27%) HTTP
3 9 (1.73%) SD-WAN
3 9 (1.73%) WAN
4 6 (1.15%) LAN
4 6 (1.15%) RTP
5 4 (0.77%) NGN
6 3 (0.58%) Multicast
6 3 (0.58%) Network Security
6 3 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.58%) Wireless
7 2 (0.38%) Firewall
7 2 (0.38%) VPN
8 1 (0.19%) 4G
8 1 (0.19%) 5G
8 1 (0.19%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.19%) MPLS
8 1 (0.19%) Skype
8 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.04%) Metadata
2 20 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 20 (3.85%) Power BI
2 20 (3.85%) RDBMS
2 20 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.73%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.35%) Tableau
5 6 (1.15%) Data Mining
5 6 (1.15%) SAP BW
5 6 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.58%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.38%) Big Data
7 2 (0.38%) DB2
8 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (4.62%) JIRA
2 19 (3.65%) Jaeger
3 3 (0.58%) ERwin
3 3 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.19%) Git
4 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 191 (36.73%) Finance
2 175 (33.65%) Social Skills
3 147 (28.27%) Marketing
4 92 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (14.23%) Banking
6 66 (12.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (10.77%) Retail
8 52 (10.00%) Law
9 41 (7.88%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (7.88%) Legal
10 40 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (5.77%) Financial Institution
12 28 (5.38%) Back Office
12 28 (5.38%) Public Sector
13 22 (4.23%) Manufacturing
14 19 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (3.27%) Digital Economy
16 12 (2.31%) Italian Language
17 11 (2.12%) Automotive
18 10 (1.92%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 141 (27.12%) Product Manager
2 75 (14.42%) Lead
2 75 (14.42%) Senior
3 52 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 39 (7.50%) Senior Manager
5 33 (6.35%) Senior Product Manager
6 20 (3.85%) Developer
6 20 (3.85%) Product Lead
7 18 (3.46%) Consultant
7 18 (3.46%) Development Engineer
7 18 (3.46%) Software Engineer
8 17 (3.27%) Digital Product Manager
8 17 (3.27%) Software Development Engineer
9 14 (2.69%) Change Manager
9 14 (2.69%) Product Management Director
10 13 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (2.50%) Senior Development Engineer
10 13 (2.50%) Senior Software Development Engineer
10 13 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (2.31%) Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.85%) REST
2 19 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.54%) Keras
3 8 (1.54%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.54%) TensorFlow
3 8 (1.54%) YAML
4 4 (0.77%) .NET
5 3 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.38%) CSS
6 2 (0.38%) HTML
6 2 (0.38%) Spring
6 2 (0.38%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.19%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.19%) Next.js
7 1 (0.19%) Playwright
7 1 (0.19%) PySpark
7 1 (0.19%) pytest
7 1 (0.19%) React
7 1 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 134 (25.77%) Product Ownership
2 44 (8.46%) Social Media
3 35 (6.73%) Marketing Technology
4 34 (6.54%) Over-the-Top Content
5 31 (5.96%) Onboarding
5 31 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (5.77%) Management Information System
7 29 (5.58%) Cloud Native
8 18 (3.46%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.54%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.54%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.35%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.35%) Podcast
13 6 (1.15%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.15%) IoT
13 6 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.42%) Linux
2 19 (3.65%) Unix
3 6 (1.15%) Windows
4 2 (0.38%) zOS
5 1 (0.19%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (57.69%) Roadmaps
2 245 (47.12%) Agile
3 143 (27.50%) Product Roadmap
4 111 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 110 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 109 (20.96%) Product Vision
7 104 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (19.04%) Product Strategy
9 98 (18.85%) AI
9 98 (18.85%) Mentoring
10 94 (18.08%) Decision-Making
11 82 (15.77%) User Stories
12 77 (14.81%) Analytics
13 73 (14.04%) User Experience
14 72 (13.85%) Customer Experience
15 65 (12.50%) Product Backlog
16 63 (12.12%) Coaching
17 62 (11.92%) Product Requirements
18 61 (11.73%) Business Development
19 60 (11.54%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.88%) Java
1 41 (7.88%) Python
2 25 (4.81%) JavaScript
3 24 (4.62%) SQL
4 20 (3.85%) Go
5 19 (3.65%) Bash
6 8 (1.54%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.15%) Bicep
8 4 (0.77%) C#
9 3 (0.58%) R
10 2 (0.38%) COBOL
10 2 (0.38%) JCL
10 2 (0.38%) PHP
10 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.19%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (17.88%) Degree
2 35 (6.73%) Master's Degree
3 29 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.42%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.08%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.35%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.15%) PMP
9 5 (0.96%) MBA
10 4 (0.77%) CISSP
10 4 (0.77%) HNC
11 3 (0.58%) CCNA
11 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.58%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.38%) ACCA
12 2 (0.38%) CIMA
12 2 (0.38%) CISM
12 2 (0.38%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.81%) QA
2 13 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.73%) NCSC
6 8 (1.54%) NIST
7 7 (1.35%) GDPR
8 5 (0.96%) PMO
9 4 (0.77%) SLA
10 3 (0.58%) IFRS
10 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.58%) PERC
11 2 (0.38%) COREP
11 2 (0.38%) FINREP
11 2 (0.38%) GRC
12 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.19%) GMP
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) RACF
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (5.96%) Terraform
2 23 (4.42%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.65%) Ansible
3 19 (3.65%) Argo
3 19 (3.65%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.38%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 50 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.08%) Adobe
3 34 (6.54%) Google
4 12 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.73%) Oracle
6 8 (1.54%) Databricks
6 8 (1.54%) Dell
6 8 (1.54%) NVIDIA
7 7 (1.35%) SAP
8 6 (1.15%) Foundry
9 5 (0.96%) Cisco
10 4 (0.77%) Facebook
10 4 (0.77%) Toshiba
10 4 (0.77%) YouTube
11 3 (0.58%) Apple
11 3 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.58%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.58%) Tenable
11 3 (0.58%) Trayport